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INDIAN LAKE, N.Y. (AP) — An Adirondack whitewater guide has been sentenced to a year in jail for
his role in the death of a Columbus woman who fell out of their raft in the Adirondacks.

The Post-Star in Glens Falls reported that Rory Fay, 38, of North Creek was sentenced in
Hamilton County Court, where he’d pleaded guilty in November to criminally negligent homicide and
other charges for the death of Tamara Blake, 53, of Columbus.

State police said Fay was drunk when he and Blake fell out of the raft on Sept. 27, 2012.

Her body was found a few miles downstream in the Hudson River. An autopsy showed she had drowned
despite wearing a properly attached flotation vest and helmet. Her boyfriend, 53-year-old Richard
Clar of Columbus, also was in the raft.

Fay was a guide for the Hudson River Rafting Co., which has been temporarily shut down by court
order because of a number of safety concerns.

The newspaper reported that Fay apologized for the accident at his sentencing on Friday.